Sentences with phrase «of urban residents»

RenewableUK quoted a recent Ipsos MORI poll that found 68 % of rural residents backed the use of wind power, compared to 66 % of urban residents.

Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residents.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

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That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

The ratio of doctors to residents is much lower in the medium - sized cities versus the big urban areas.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

So many bodies are brought in that the morgue workers struggle to identify and bury the dead fast enough to make space for the next batch that arrives with grim regularity, as the city's residents clear up after nine months of urban warfare.

Overall, researchers conclude, gentrification in popular urban areas remains «a major issue» which could continue to lead «to the displacement of long - time residents in a neighborhood.»

Residents in Seattle, on average, are spending 40.2 percent of pay for a three - bedroom rental, according to ATTOM Data Solutions research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

Urbanist and part - time Miami Beach resident Richard Florida, whose creative - class theory helped popularize and propel the U.S. urban renaissance 15 years ago, has a new book that explores the dark side of the phenomenon.

Chinese citizens receive an urban or rural hukou which officially identifies them as residents of a specific area and which allows them to live and work only in that area.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

Suppose one wanted to measure urban literacy as a function of a city's size, or of the average income of its residents.

Currently, there are only 44 resale homes available for sale in an urban center of more than 80,000 residents, with most priced above $ 1 million.

A sense of community has been restored when residents of urban neighborhoods have been given responsibility for improving their own lives and a voice about decisions in their communities.

The prosperous postwar economy fostered the exodus of an upwardly mobile working class from the city in search of the more genuinely American housing to be found in the suburbs, and at the same time, the entry - level skilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs once held by project residents disappeared from the urban core.

It was widely hailed by the professional urban planners and architects when completed, but as Corbin points out, it's a part of Boston, perhaps the part, that residents love to hate, a place that made the old elevated freeway that cut across Boston seem positively organic by comparison.

The sociologists Richard Lloyd and Terry Nichols Clark think of the city, and they mean this as praise, as an «entertainment machine» whose residents «can experience their own urban location as if tourists, emphasising aesthetic concerns».

Furthermore, in many developing countries price regulation in favor of providing cheap food for urban residents has been a devastating disincentive for food producers to increase their production.

The sociologists Richard Lloyd and Terry Nichols Clark think of the city, and they mean this as praise, as an «entertainment machine» whose residents «can experience their own urban location as if tourists, emphasizing aesthetic concerns.»

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

Downtown Miami continues to establish itself as a true global, urban destination, with a population of almost 90,000 residents — a 150 % increase since 2000 and still growing, consisting mostly of young professionals.

Open to all residents and visitors age 21 and older, the Urban Bourbon Trail Passport program allows individuals to collect unique stamps from six of the participating stops and be rewarded with a special gift that can be claimed at the Louisville Visitors Center (301 S. Fourth St.).

The village has 1.6 acres of park space for every 10,000 residents — far short of the National Recreation and Park Association's recommendation of 10 acres per 10,000 people, John Mac Manus, of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the board.

Inclusion criteria: «all pregnant women aged between 12 to 49 years old, who are residents of community units in Korogocho and Viwandani slums that fall within the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) area, and their respective children (when born)».

A new wave of residents, the young urban professionals, began moving to the neighborhood during the past two years.

Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

As a young man, Jiménez found kindred spirits in like - minded men and women who were committed to the causes of liberation and independence for Puerto Rico — and sought freedom from what they perceived to be the racist and discriminatory treatment minority residents faced in major urban centers such as Chicago and New York.

$ 2 million to construct the Urban Automotive Center of Excellence in Buffalo's Fruit Belt District to provide automotive repair training, GED certificates and mentorship assistance to local residents.

A variety of affordable transit options such as public transit, taxis, car shares, cycling, and safe pedestrian pathways is critical for residents of Erie County to engage in a wide variety of community activities across urban, suburban, and rural settings.

The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.

The economic tendency of immigrants to work in large urban areas is one of the main reasons that large urban areas have much more religious diversity, and many more residents who are neither WASP nor African - American, than rural areas.

Its goal is to make sure residents in the underserved urban and rural parts of the state can access the internet at 25 Mbps and eventually expand that to 100 Mbps by providing state matching grants to broadband service providers.

Erie County residents have a remarkable 20 + acres of natural habitat and shoreline access in an urban South Buffalo neighborhood.

Brooklyn, NY — October 6, 2016 — Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) joined residents and development partners MDG Design + Construction (MDG), Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG), and Marien - Heim Tower Associates LP to celebrate the renovation of Marien - Heim Tower, a 181 - unit affordable development for low - income seniors aged 62 and older.

Second, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development must identify those residents who are legally living in NYCHA's apartments with illegally residing sex offenders, in order to determine if any fraud was committed in failing to list them as a household member.

If Section 8 vouchers are applied, the city would require a waiver from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to allocate units to current NYCHA residents.

When older residents retired and moved out of New York State in search of lower taxes and warmer weather, transplants from New York City and other areas moved in to escape the hustle and bustle of urban life.

The Center for Urban Community Services has opened a «Single Stop» office on Southern Boulevard, to help Bronx residents determine whether they qualify for different types of public assistance.

The local election results are a consequence of the Government's disregard for the mounting pressure faced by councils «and the pain it is causing their residents», according to Steve Houghton, a Labour councillor and chair of SIGOMA, the collective voice of urban areas representing many of the large towns and cities in the Northern, Midland and South Coast regions of England.

It's the urban core of a largely rural county whose 160,000 residents voted twice for Barack Obama but swung to Trump in 2016.

Over the last several months, as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area planning process chugged forward, we've sat through countless community board meetings, interviewed dozens of local residents and decision - makers and published op - eds from various players invested in the proposed residential and retail project.

the residents, joined by representatives of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, state Assemblymen Keith Wright and City Councilman Robert Jackson, said complex owner Urban American Management should have consulted with residents about ways to improve safety before instituting the plan.

Members of the Urban Jobs Task Force hold signs supporting a Resident Employment Ordinance during a meeting of the Syracuse Common Council on Monday, June 6, 2016.

Some residents in Koforidua Adewso SSNIT have expressed their disappointment with the government, and the authorities of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly and the Department of Urban Roads in what they say is the complete disregard of the plight of residents in the municipality.

Syracuse, N.Y. — A dozen members of the Urban Jobs Task Force demonstrated at the Syracuse Inner Harbor Thursday, calling on COR Development Co. to hire city residents to help build its $ 342 million complex of hotels, apartments, retail and office space at the former Barge Canal terminal.

Residents have found an array of uses for it, from gardening and education to revitalization of neglected urban landmarks.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.